Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard College Observatory, following its custom of past years, of giving lectures open to the public, last night announced seven lectures beginning October 29 and ending January 31. These lectures which begin at 7 o'clock are planned for people who are interested in astromony but who do not care for its technical aspects. After each lecture, which will be given by some authority on the subject, telescopic observations of celestial objects will be offered those who attend when the weather permits...
Some definite plans have now been made for the fall and winter work of the Club. During the week of the Yale game two or three performances of some play not yet selected will be presented in Brattle Hall. The custom of presenting a play at Wellesley during the same week will be continued, as arrangements now stand...
...Committee on the Choice of Electives, will explain the elective system to Freshmen in the College and the Engineering School assembled in the New Lecture Hall at 9 o'clock this morning. Professor Lieder, who teaches in the German Department, is delivering this informal address in accordance with the custom established several years ago of informing the incoming class of the operation of the elective system as modified by the requirements of concentration and distribution...
President Coolidge, like President Harding, like President Wilson, like the first of our Presidents, will deliver his important messages to Congress in person. The custom now bids fair...
...custom of "adoption" is an honor invented by the Bolsheviki to replace the Tsarist method of making distinguished persons honorary officers in the Navy or Army. The main difference in the Bolshevik idea is that Government departments adopt a regiment or a warship. The Foreign Office recently adopted a regiment, but M. Georges Tchicherin (Foreign Minister) did not become a colonel; he became an honorary private...